Centerline Investment Co. v. Tri-Cor Industries, Inc.

Tri-Cor Industries, Inc. (tenant) breached its commercial lease with respondent Centerline Investment Company (landlord). The landlord, in an effort to mitigate, moved another tenant in the building into Tri-Cor’s space, charging a higher rent than Tri-Cor was paying and then sued Tri-Cor for the rent due on the other tenant’s prior lease and for other consequential damages. The trial court held that Centerline could recover for the rent due on the other tenant’s space and that Tri-Cor was not entitled to a credit for the additional rent paid on its former space by the new tenant. Tri-Cor…